Jem Touches the Wall

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A poem titled Jem Touches the Wall.

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Deborah McNemee, USD 402

Deborah Linn McNemee was nine years old when she wrote the first three chapters of a novel she hoped to publish someday. While that story never flourished, her modern feminist novel, Just Daisy: A Gatsby Retelling hit shelves in 2021. She strives to help teachers keep classic literature relevant for young readers with her educator blog, KeepingClassics.com. Her writing has been published in Teachers and Writers Magazine and Kansas English and on the Center for Mark Twain Studies website. She is a literature and composition teacher who currently holds the position of Gifted Facilitator for a Title 1 school district in Kansas where she quotes classic literature to her students on a daily basis. She can be reached at keepingclassics@gmail.com or on Instagram, @keepingclassics.